Welcome!
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study and Toulouse School of Economics (IAST/TSE). I obtained my PhD in Economics at UCLouvain in September 2025.
My research investigates the historical foundations of knowledge: how ideas emerge, circulate, and combine into innovations, and how people and institutions shape these processes over time. I combine applied microeconomics with historical data to study questions at the intersection of education, migration, innovation, and long-run development.
My email address is: chiara.zanardello@iast.fr